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WordPress – Tips on Creating and Updating Tables with dbDelta

One of the reasons I LOVE WordPress is that it makes some mundane programming chores very easy, particularly working with the database. WP uses a modified version of the ezSQL to interact with the database, and provides a number of data cleansing functions, both of which are huge time savers. One other thing that WP [...]

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WordPress: Add Your Plugin’s Settings Link to Admin Plugins Page

Hello, WordPress plugin authors!  I’ve been envious of that little “Settings” link on the Plugins page in the Admin on several of the plugins I use on my blogs.  I wanted one for my own PhotoSmash plugin! My first stop, Google, yielded no fruit, but persistence paid off.  So, thanks to GD-Star Ratings and Shadowbox-JS, [...]

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PhotoSmash Galleries Plugin turns 1,000

Even as I sit here trying to fix a thorny problem with PhotoSmash, I popped by the plugin’s page and noticed that it had turned 1,000 downloads on the nose. Let’s hope the next 1,000 downloads have it a bit easier. PhotoSmash is a WordPress photo gallery plugin lets you let your visitors upload images [...]

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How to Host a Plugin on WordPress – Video pt. 1

The first time I wrote a WordPress plugin, I thought, “Cool, I’m going to host this puppy on the WordPress website and I’ll get tons of traffic.”  Then I got to the front door and they started talking about SVN.  Then I took a look at what SVN (aka Subversion) was all about, and that [...]

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